Barry Mccaffrey

No apologies President Clinton has dropped the idea of apologizing for slavery. A White House spokesman said last week that the president wants to address the issue in some other way, perhaps with a memorial. `If you smoke a lot of dope, smoke cigarettes and use alcohol to excess in your early adolescent years, it carries through.' White House staffer Barry McCaffrey. He was responding to a federal report that drug use among people 18 to 25 is up. (It's...

San Francisco outfielder Barry Bonds' second attempt to recover from knee surgery should proceed more carefully than his first. Bonds is expected to arrive back at spring camp by Tuesday to begin a rehabilitation program after undergoing a second operation to repair new tears in the cartilage of his right knee last week. Giants trainer Stan Conte avoided speculating that Bonds, 40, may have rushed himself, particularly by running, sprinting and performing agility drills during...

European Union officials have joined the United States in giving a cool response to the International Olympic Committee's plan for a world anti-doping agency, a U.S. official says. Barry McCaffrey, head of the White House drug policy office, said Thursday that during his trip to Europe this week, EU and national leaders gave their blessing to alternative U.S. proposals for an international agreement on tackling per-formance-enhancing drugs. That proposal includes a broad international...

White House drug policy director Barry McCaffrey said Thursday in his final report to Congress that America can win the war on drugs but needs to spend more money on treating the nation's addicts. "There's a mistaken notion in this country that the drug problem is unsolvable, and it's just not true," he said at a news conference at the White House. But McCaffrey, who will step down Friday after nearly five years as the country's drug czar, said Americans need to change the way...

From the border with Mexico to the port of New York and out to the Great Plains, the war against drugs is being regionalized, White House drug chief Barry McCaffrey said Wednesday. "What we are facing is not a national drug problem but a series of regional drug epidemics," the retired Army general said as he closed a conference of officials of almost two dozen "high-intensity drug-trafficking areas." From a beginning of five such regions in 1990 the focus areas have grown to 22,...

Teenage drug abuse held steady in 2000, the fourth successive year it has either fallen or stayed the same, the federal government said Thursday. Smoking decreased significantly, but use of the club drug ecstasy climbed for the second year in a row. The annual "Monitoring the Future" survey, a study of teen drug, alcohol and tobacco use, had mostly good news, with drops among 8th, 10th and 12th graders. But it also found the number of high school seniors using heroin hit its highest...

A senior Olympic executive delivered a blunt message to the White House drug adviser: Crack down on drugs in pro sports in the United States instead of criticizing the International Olympic Committee. "With the greatest of respect, your view is clearly wrong," IOC Vice President Dick Pound said in a letter to Barry McCaffrey, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. Pound said he was troubled by McCaffrey's attacks on the IOC's plans for an anti-drug...

Barry McCaffrey, a retired general who has directed White House drug policy for nearly five years, said Monday that he will leave his post in January. He said he is considering offers that include a return to teaching at West Point. His resignation is effective Jan. 6, two weeks before President Clinton leaves office. By law, McCaffrey's term is indefinite. He said announcing his intentions now gives the presidential hopefuls a clean slate to shape their...

White House drug policy director Barry McCaffrey is striking back at a prize-winning investigative reporter he accuses of spreading "defamatory" allegations about McCaffrey's conduct as an Army general in the Persian Gulf war. In an unusual twist, McCaffrey's efforts are calling attention to allegations against him even before they are published. He is trying to head off an article that is being prepared by Seymour Hersh for The New Yorker magazine. McCaffrey...

Using the spotlight of the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the U.S. government announced that it would contribute $3.3 million to anti-doping organizations to help combat an increasing rate of illegal performance-enhancing drug use among athletes. Barry McCaffrey, White House drug policy director, along with Donna Shalala, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Frank Shorter, president of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, and Thurgood Marshall Jr., assistant to the president for...

President Andres Pastrana met with top White House aides Thursday to coordinate Washington's $1.3 billion anti-narcotics initiative. The meeting with Barry McCaffrey, director of the White House National Drug Control Policy Office, and Undersecretary of State Thomas Pickering came as Pastrana approved the extradition of an accused drug trafficker to the U.S. McCaffrey and Pickering said afterward that much work remained to be done in determining...

President Andres Pastrana met with top White House aides Thursday to coordinate Washington's $1.3 billion anti-narcotics initiative. The meeting with Barry McCaffrey, director of the White House National Drug Control Policy Office, and Undersecretary of State Thomas Pickering came as Pastrana approved the extradition of an accused drug trafficker to the U.S. McCaffrey and Pickering said afterward that much work remained to be done in determining...

1. The Look. Bill Clinton gave a misty gaze of quiet pride and admiration to Hillary. Who else was introduced by Clinton at his State of the Union speech and got The Look? 2. Some Dallas Cowboys players are more equal than others. Which of the following is true? A. According to his contract, Troy Aikman does not have to participate in groin-stretching drills. B. Michael Irvin, Erik Williams, Leon Lett and Nate Newton ride to Super Bowl practices in a...

One of the top American commanders in the Persian Gulf war came under investigation after a member of his unit complained that his troops had pummeled retreating Iraqi forces in an unprovoked attack two days after a cease-fire went into effect. Military investigators, who fielded the anonymous complaint and completed a secret report in 1991, exonerated Barry McCaffrey, now a retired four-star Army general and President Clinton's top drug-control official. But questions about the attack...

One of the top American commanders in the Persian Gulf war came under investigation after a member of his unit complained that his troops had pummeled retreating Iraqi forces in an unprovoked attack two days after a cease-fire went into effect. Military investigators, who fielded the anonymous complaint and completed a secret report in 1991, exonerated Barry McCaffrey, now a retired four-star Army general and President Clinton's top drug-control official. But questions about the attack...

White House drug policy director Barry McCaffrey is striking back at a prize-winning investigative reporter he accuses of spreading "defamatory" allegations about McCaffrey's conduct as an Army general in the Persian Gulf war. In an unusual twist, McCaffrey's efforts are calling attention to allegations against him even before they are published. He is trying to head off an article that is being prepared by Seymour Hersh for The New Yorker magazine. McCaffrey...

Barry McCaffrey, a retired general who has directed White House drug policy for nearly five years, said Monday that he will leave his post in January. He said he is considering offers that include a return to teaching at West Point. His resignation is effective Jan. 6, two weeks before President Clinton leaves office. By law, McCaffrey's term is indefinite. He said announcing his intentions now gives the presidential hopefuls a clean slate to shape their...

Ignoring recommendations by top Republican lawmakers, President Clinton declared Wednesday that Mexico is fully cooperating with U.S. counternarcotics efforts as it attempts to curb the country's well-organized and often violent drug cartels. In his annual, congressionally mandated report card on the performance of countries used as drug sources or transit points, Clinton also "fully certified" Colombia as a reliable partner in the drug war despite a 20 percent...

Ignoring recommendations by top Republican lawmakers, President Clinton declared Wednesday that Mexico is fully cooperating with U.S. counternarcotics efforts as it attempts to curb the country's well-organized and often violent drug cartels. In his annual, congressionally mandated report card on the performance of countries used as drug sources or transit points, Clinton also "fully certified" Colombia as a reliable partner in the drug war despite a 20 percent...

A CIA analysis made public Tuesday says that the cultivation of the opium poppy rose 23 percent in Colombia last year and that Colombian heroin increasingly joined cocaine in reaching U.S. streets. Barry McCaffrey, White House drug control chief, disclosed the data at a Senate hearing in Washington before heading to Colombia for three days of talks on a $1.6 billion U.S. aid plan to fight drugs. A week ago, McCaffrey announced a 20 percent surge in Colombian coca...